Word: ately
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gospel & a Prophet. In Huron, disaster piled on disaster. The dust was followed by tornadoes of grasshoppers that ate the paint off the houses; the wells ran dry and the trees died. Another winter of the Great Depression settled on the world, and Hubert Humphrey listened on his radio to the hopeful words from Washington. His fundamentalist liberalism, inherited from his father, found a gospel in the New Deal, a prophet in Roosevelt. Humphrey longed to get into politics...
...recollection and advice made Gene dizzy. "You'll have more fun learning yourself," he said, and ate a turnip...
...goes to the Brattle on Sunday afternoons beside CRIMSON reviewers? When a Marx Brothers movie is announced, small children go to the Brattle on a Sunday afternoon, giggling and wriggling and dragging reluctant daddies behind them. Yesterday afternoon they ate up Gerald Mc-Boing-Boing, as well they might, and also, with less reason, the Magoo which followed it. Shortly after the feature film had started, however, they began first trickling and then trooping out, and before it was far advanced, most of them were back on the streets...
Working for Patterson was an experience. The boss liked everyone to be on the job at 6:30 a.m., insisted that executives wear vests and join him in his food fads (he once heard that Bulgarians lived long because they ate garlic, had plates of the buds served at every lunch). Young Allyn survived it all, and at 27, he was comptroller and the youngest member of N.C.R.'s board...
Conspicuous Consumption. In Atlanta, informed that his baggage was half a pound over the weight limit, a Delta Airlines passenger pulled out a 2-ft. roll of salami, sliced off half a pound before his plane left and ate...